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    Comment #45687236

    There are circular dependencies within AWS, but also systems to account for this (especially for cold starting). Also there really is no one AWS, each region is its own (Now more t…

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    Comment #39644995

    Compromising a single seed source for randomness doesn't mean you have control over the output. That's the whole point to using multiple sources.

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    Thanks Microsoft for taking away one of my simple pleasures (Minecraft)

    I have an old laptop running Ubuntu 20.04 and after trying off and on now for over a year (life is busy) to get this game I used to enjoy playing so much working, I just can't. Min…

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    Comment #30946300

    Netflix is hosted on AWS to name just one such instance. I have heard that internally the customer names are obfuscated, including other Amazon services. Indeed it would be a death…

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    Comment #30434595

    Issues with login.gov don't make me very confident. Try putting in 2 lower security passwords but then backspace deleting them and you get. zxcvbn.feedback.use_a_few_words_avoid_co…

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    Ask HN: Is the web slower to load nowadays or is it just me?

    Specifically I am speaking to the non-mobile web experience but this discussion can include that as well. Is it just me or is the page load times and response time worse now than i…

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    Comment #23353419

    I understand not wanting to use SHA-1 now for security reasons, but is it still an OK practice to use it as a general hashing function for a uuid/data checksum?

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    Comment #23218137

    Didnt' China try to do this a few years back but was shutdown for some reason? Also, this would double as a great military weapon so I am sure that is being assessed as well.

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    Comment #20706506

    "The downside is that Google owns you." I think it is more of a question of who/what the actual product is.

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    Comment #20384159

    You can look at any major natural disaster and find good examples.

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    Comment #20266533

    - Hosting personal website from my DMZ at home. - SDR and packet radio (Direwolf) projects - Kodi - rpi zeroW with usb serial for connecting back to my house from work/travel. I ha…

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    Comment #18993824

    Additionally having a non-standard port does help defend against 0day exploits before patches are available or before you are able to disable the port.

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    Comment #18059251

    Another reason. If encryption was allowed then you would have a lot of commercial use on public bands but you couldn't enforce it, etc. It would ruin the public bands for everyone.…

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    Comment #17767587

    So basically U2F clones. It would be neat to have some sort of CA between U2F devices, device A could sign device B and be put away, and device B could store the signing and share …

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    Comment #17767194

    "raid" 1/0 and 10 are stable, others are not. Theoretically btrfs can protect against bit-rot where other fs's typically don't.

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    Comment #17759094

    For the sake of a debate, why wouldn't you? (just sticking to drug kingpin and not including the murder for hire stuff...)

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    Comment #16941819

    You can't live off of just fat. Also, you are a collection of organisms that work together to keep "you" alive. Punishing your gut bacteria/etc just because you can is not healthy.…

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    Comment #16738250

    Would this allow separate GC'ng for each task?

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    Comment #16317844

    > I personally stay far away from password managers I am curious how you manage your passwords.

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    Comment #16248965

    I've always wanted to make an open source autonomous watercraft to collect data. I also think some open source uplink buoys would be sweet. Then your craft could offload lots of da…

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    Comment #16211069

    Amazon will have a new captcha asking how many boxes of cheeze-itz this person is holding on their way out of a store.

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    Comment #16109834

    Didn't Dell acquire EMC?

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    Comment #15914998

    | Do you consider that a CAPTCHA? Yes:"Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" But funny enough, I believe that data is used to help with machin…